> changing utils.available_package_description() to use the try..except > with python3-apt sounds like a good idea. I take that back. We should just drop utils.available_package_description() and its tests.
If we'd put the try..except into that function, we'd also need to either (i) put the apt.Cache() call there or (ii) change the function interface to pass it the cache object. However, "i" is inefficient and we lose all the speed benefits of the patch, and "ii" is incompatible.
